Quotes about judge page 4
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: 20th Century Ghosts
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“That’s kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so OK.”
Rachel Caine book Glass Houses
Variant: That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
Source: Glass Houses
“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”
Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses
Variant: You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Source: The Satanic Verses
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
My Point... And I Do Have One. New York: Bantam Books, 1995
Ann Coulter book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: My Story
Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue
Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue
“You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly.
"Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Alice in Zombieland
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Source: By Art Koroma, from page 256 of Holy Axiom Truth Exposed... the Bible Is a Myth (2014) note: It appears President Barack Obama started this misattribution. I can find no reference to this quote on the Internet prior to his May 15, 2016 commencement address at Rutgers State University. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/15/remarks-president-commencement-address-rutgers-state-university-new
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.”
Annie Dillard (1945) American writer
“be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.”
Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller
Source: The Storyteller
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949)
Context: A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. We call him good or bad according to how he stands in this matter. It looks at first sight as if our estimate of a man depended entirely on his social qualities.
And yet such an attitude would be wrong. It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine — each was discovered by one man.
Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act I, sc. ii.
Source: The Critic (1779)
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: The Red Dice
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”
Isabel Allende book Maya's Notebook
Source: Maya's Notebook
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 10
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
John F. Kennedy: "Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America" (26 February 1962) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9075&st=&st1=<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --> <br class="br">1962 <br class="br">Context: We welcome the views of others. We seek a free flow of information across national boundaries and oceans, across iron curtains and stone walls. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda”
Eva Ibbotson book The Morning Gift
Source: The Morning Gift
“Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.”
Salman Rushdie book Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Source: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Judge — A law student who marks his own examination-papers.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“You can't judge who you love the most by how long you love them.”
Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”
Jeffrey Archer book Only Time Will Tell
Source: Only Time Will Tell
Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure
Variant translation:
It is very important to give advice to a man to help him mend his ways. It is a compassionate and important duty. However, it is extremely difficult to comprehend how this advice should be given. It is easy to recognise the good and bad points in others. Generally it is considered a kindness in helping people with things they hate or find difficult to say. However, one impracticality is that if people do not take in this advice they will think that there is nothing they should change. The same applies when we try to create shame in others by speaking badly of them. It seems outwardly that we are just complaining about them. One must get to know the person in question. Keep after him and get him to put his trust in you. Find out what interests he has. When you write to him or before you part company, you should express concrete examples of your own faults and get him to recall to mind whether or not he has the same problems. Also positively praise his qualities. It is important that he takes in your comments like a man thirsting for water. It is difficult to give such advice. We cannot easily correct our defects and weak points as they are dyed deeply within us. I have had bitter experience of this.
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. One must become close with him and make sure that he continually trusts one's word. Approaching subjects that are dear to him, seek the best way to speak and to be well understood.
Context: To give a person one's opinion and correct his faults is an important thing. It is compassionate and comes first in matters of service. But the way of doing this is extremely difficult. To discover the good and bad points of a person is an easy thing, and to give an opinion concerning them is easy, too. For the most part, people think that they are being kind by saying the things that others find distasteful or difficult to say. But if it is not received well, they think that there is nothing more to be done. This is completely worthless. It is the same as bringing shame to a person by slandering him. It is nothing more than getting it off one's chest.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. One must become close with him and make sure that he continually trusts one's word. Approaching subjects that are dear to him, seek the best way to speak and to be well understood. Judge the occasion, and determine whether it is better by letter or at the time of leave-taking. Praise his good points and use every device to encourage him, perhaps by talking about one's own faults without touching on his, but so that they will occur to him. Have him receive this in the way that a man would drink water when his throat is dry, and it will be an opinion that will correct faults.
This is extremely difficult. If a person's fault is a habit of some years prior, by and large it won't be remedied. I have had this experience myself. To be intimate with all one's comrades, correcting each other's faults, and being of one mind to be of use to the master is the great compassion of a retainer. By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?
“The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Bloodfever
“your judgement judges you and defines you”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
Sarah Dessen book Just Listen
Variant: It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.
Source: Just Listen
Dietrich Bonhoeffer book The Cost of Discipleship
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 185.
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love
Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love
“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Variant: God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
